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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 12h

1909

According to evidence of elderly people, the world has been growing worse with each generation; men less manly; women less womanly, honesty less common; religion less of an influence. According to the evidence of conditions, however, the world seems to have been growing ever and always a better place for the human race to live in.
--West Concord Enterprise, 2 Sep 1909

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 20h

As so often, he tells a parable to illustrate his point (śilopākhyāna, VI.32511–40)."
#SanskritPhilosophy

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 20h

Significantly, the Mokṣopāya addresses and quotes Maṇḍana's theory of error (khyāti [Vibhramaviveka]) in Mokṣopāya VI.325.1–10 (the current volume), adopting "Vasiṣṭha's" inclusivistic approach by redefining the ātmakhyāti of the Yogācāra school in his own terms.
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 20h

A discussion was started on "Indology", that might be relevant to ppl here.
Q: Was the existence of Śaṅkara and/or his writings known in 10th c. Kashmir?
R by Walter Slaje:
"To my knowledge, Śaṅkara played no role in Kashmir at that time. Maṇḍana was seen as the representative of Advaita Vedānta
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Neither nor.
That they have always existed and that unless we have strong reasons against that, since we should start somewhere, we should trust the past to have been like the present.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for asking! The ṛṣis are just people who recited the Veda particularly well according to Mīmāṃsā authors. They did not "start" the Vedas.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

In order to safeguard the validity of the Veda, Mīmāṃsā authors relegate it to the domain of the ought only.

elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget the fundamental division between the is- and the ought-domains (Taber calls the latter “transcendent”, but I am not sure this translation is helpful). Sense-perception is the ultimate source for claims about the former, the Veda alone for claims about the latter.
#Mīmāṃsā #Sanskrit

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

Mīmāṃsā authors explain that an author of the Veda would have been remembered, had they existed, given that the Vedas are so present in daily life (it's not like forgetting the maker of a well in an abandoned country, they say).

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Hsozkult Service @hsozkultservice.bsky.social · 2d

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 1d

If Anthropic trained its AI on books you wrote, a lawsuit settlement may entitle you to around $3000 per book.

If Anthropic Used Your Work, You Could be Entitled to Compensation - Daily Nous

The settlement in the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic provides authors of books they trained their AI on with compensation. The amount of compensation ultimately depends on the number of people wh...

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 1d

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 2d

This is historically wrong (the upholders of luminosity were parataḥprāmāṇyavādins!) and the "It seems reasonably clear" puts the audience under the impression that it has been proven, whereas it has not.
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#Philosophy #philsky #SanskritPhilosophy

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 2d

Shri Krishna Saksena writes "It seems
reasonably clear that the two theories [EF: intrinsic validity and transparency of cognitions] mutually imply one another
and are complementary, if not actually identical. To say that a
cognition is inherently valid is only to say that it is self-luminous."
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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 3d

"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 3d

Part of same thing "it seems like in humans consciousness just appeared when sufficiently complex systems. So you can't rule it out for LLMs"

Yes we can. The way it makes mistakes is exactly indicative of nonconciousness.
Of a lack of any sense of comprehension of its inputs.
And of self awareness.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 3d

Miira Tuominen and I edited this new book from Brill with no fewer than 25 chapters on various aspects of ancient and medieval philosophy in Greek, Arabic, and Latin texts. Actually there's a little Persian in there too.

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Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy

"Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy" published on 29 Sep 2025 by Brill.

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 3d

—>But don’t we then have a problem with invalidity? Should not the same apply to it? No, because invalidity is not a property, it is the lack of a property. Hence, it does not need a specific cause.
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 3d

48 For [it is true that] entities may require their causes to acquire their existence [i.e. to come into being]. But once they get their existence, they operate towards their own work just spontaneously."
This means that if a cognition has the property of validity, then it has it intrinsically
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 3d

Kumārila on intrinsic validity (ad 1.1.2):
"47 It should be understood that the validity of every valid cognition is from itself. For, it is impossible for something else to produce [in it] a capacity that is not innately existent.
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 3d

Again from the comments, by David Wallace:
"LLMs double the number of papers while keeping paper quality constant, that sounds good: more excellent philosophy research being done"
Is this really so? Can we assess philosophy through quantity of papers? Or through raising interest in Qs never asked?
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Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · Jul 31

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 3d

Link to the post:
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Editor of Ethics Floats AI-Use Guidelines - Daily Nous

In a recent editorial, Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame), the editor-in-chief of Ethics, sets forth some "initial guidelines" about AI use for the journal. He says his remarks "represent only my own opini...

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting, bc I think that philosophy and drug research are fundamentally different, most of all bc the latter is results-driven, whereas the former is valuable insofar as it can keep itself questions-driven.
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